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1700 to 1707 NEWS
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AUCKLAND-DEATH: A 14 year old boy celebrating a friends birthday is the latest victim in South Auckland's growing toll of violent deaths.The police are hunting for the two people who attacked him outside his home in Weymouth last night. Kim Baker Wilson reports.PKG
OLYMPICS-BURMESTER: New Zealand swimmer Moss Burmester led the field early on in the 200 metre butterfly final, but finished fourth after being unable to hold on in the last 50 metres. This is how the final seconds unfolded on The Radio Network. CUT For more on the showdown at the Water Cube, our reporter Stephen Hewson joins us now from Beijing. LIVE
RUSSIA-GEORGIA: A deal has been struck that could bring an end to the conflict between Georgia and Russia. After a day of diplomacy, the French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced the agreement at a lmedia conference with the Georgian leader, Mikheil Saakashvili.The BBC's Fiona Werge reports PKG
NZDOLLAR: The dollar's been bouncing around today, falling a cent-and-a-half at one stage this afternoon against the US dollar. Joining us now is our economics correspondent Nigel Stirling LIVE
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BUSINESS NEWS
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PARLIAMENT-POWDER: Four people working in Parliament have been decontaminated after an unknown white powder was sent to the Beehive.The powder, contained in an envelope, was opened on the eighth floor this morning, where staff in the Prime Minister's office work.Our political reporter, Kate Williamson, has been following developments and joins us now. LIVE
NZ-FIJI: The leader of Fiji's coup Commodore Frank Bainimarama is going to be allowed into New Zealand next Tuesday so he can fly to the Pacific leaders forum in Nuie.This country normally has a travel ban on members of Fiji's interim government and the military. Here's our parliamentary chief reporter Jane Patterson. PREREC
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17.30 HEADLINES
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HEALTH-ISLANDERS: Pacific Island community leaders say overseas patients are putting their lives at risk by using their New Zealand relatives' identities to get free medical treatment. Penny Smith reports. PKG
DHB-AGECONCERN: A Canterbury District Health Board member is seeking legal advice about conflict of interest after being asked to leave a board meeting last week. Andrew Dickerson, who is also the Chief Executive of Age Concern Canterbury, was asked to leave the meeting, along with 3 others, while a report on auditing resthomes was discissed. Mr Dickerson thinks it shouldn't have applied to him and wants a second opinion PREREC
OILSPILL: Operators of the Tui oil field were in the New Plymouth District Court for sentencing today over the the country's second-biggest oil spill. Crude oil from the field washed up along 13 kilometres of the Taranaki coast last October. Reporter Craig Ashworth is with us now LIVE
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WAATEA NEWS
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BLOOD-LCOHOL: The government may move to lower the legal blood alcohol limit for drivers as part of moves to reduce alcohol-related harm. The inter-agency committee on drugs has proposed 73 areas of work in its Alcohol Action Plan. Ian Telfer has the story. PKG
PREGNANCY: Research from the University of Auckland says ten percent of pregnant women are the victims of violence, usually at the hands of their partners. The information's come from a wider study looking at violence against women in New Zealand. The principal investigator is Dr Janet Fanslow. PREREC
ISRAEL-WESTBANK: According to an Israeli newspaper, the prime minister, Ehud Olmert, has offered the Palestinians 93 percent of the West Bank as part of a possible peace settlement. Israel has refused to confirm or deny the report, but the Palestinians have already rejected it. From Jerusalem here's the BBC's Middle East Correspondent Tim Franks: PKG
AVALANCHES: For the first time locals can remember there've been avalanches in the Tararua Range in the lower North Island. The Conservation Department's Wairarapa area manager Chris Lester says there've been at least two avalanches and probably more that haven't been picked up.He says the snow is unusally deep at two to three metres. PREREC